Hi,
I have a build environment set on RHEL Linux which uses
ant to produce a .air installer for my application. With
Flex SDK 3.3 & ant the .air installer used to install
the application successfully on Windows XP/Vista & application
worked as expected.
Recently I upgraded to Flex 3.4 SDK on the Linux build machine,
but now the AIR application installed (on Windows XP) with
the ant generated .air installer(on the Linux build machine) doesn't show the
startup screen, although in the task manager I see that the process is alive.
In order to figure out what was wrong I did quite a bit of
searching but couldn't find anything worthwhile. Then I
tried the same build script on Windows XP using Flex 3.4
SDK & the generated application(after installation) worked
successfully. The only difference between Linux & windows
was that Windows XP had AIR runtime whereas Linux did not.
Since things worked with SDK 3.3 with no AIR runtime on Linux,
I doubt that this is an issue.
So far both Linux & Windows had AIR SDK 1.5.2, I then upgraded
both to AIR SDK 1.5.3 but there was no change in behaviour
i.e. installer produced in Windows worked but installer
created on Linux didn't.
Finally, I tried using adl as follows. The installed application
(using the .air installer created on Windows) had following
directory structure,
C:\App
C:\App\App.swf
C:\App\META-INF\AIR\application.xml
C:\App\META-INF\AIR\publisherid
C:\App\META-INF\AIR\hash
I copied all the files under META-INF to C:\App & then tried
to run the following, command,
C:\App> adl application.xml
That showed the startup screen.
Then I uninstalled the application & installed the application
using the .air installer created on Linux & then copied the
contents under META-INF to c:\App & tried the same command again,
this time the startup screen didn't show up but on the command
prompt, following error was shown,
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.core::WindowedApplication could not be found.
at flash.display::MovieClip/nextFrame()
at mx.managers::SystemManager/deferredNextFrame()
at mx.managers::SystemManager/preloader_initProgressHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.preloaders::Preloader/timerHandler()
at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch()
at flash.utils::Timer/tick()
I don't have any idea about why the WindowedApplication won't
be found in this particular case. If anyone has any clue,
please help.
Thanks,
Aejaz
